WellHacktually t1_j7dkmo6 wrote on February 6, 2023 at 12:26 AM

Reply to comment by McLeansvilleAppFan in Lead Plates and Land Claims in North America and Europe: When did the practice begin of burying lead plates to establish ownership of land, and why did it die out, and was it ever used successfully in a court of law to establish ownership? by whyenn

Yes, OP is aware of that. Read the post. They were manually sorting out and excluding search results where the "lead" in question was the metal, rather than the salient fact in a news piece, and noticed a lot of references to physical burying of lead to mark property boundaries.

McLeansvilleAppFan t1_j7dxaxk wrote on February 6, 2023 at 2:04 AM

I know and I was just pointing out that any other reference would be VERY obscure it would seem. Hence my comment, "(I) Never heard this term in the context..."